Pacheco bail plea rejected, faces arrest after discharge

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In fresh trouble for former Goa minister Fransisco Pacheco, a local court on Wednesday dismissed his bail plea terming it as an "abuse of law" and said police can arrest him once he is discharged from hospital.
"In fact, the application for seeking bail is nothing but abuse of the process

In fresh trouble for former Goa minister Fransisco Pacheco, a local court on Wednesday dismissed his bail plea terming it as an "abuse of law" and said police can arrest him once he is discharged from hospital.

"In fact, the application for seeking bail is nothing but abuse of the process of law," Additional Sessions Judge Pramod Kamat said in his order.

Pacheco, who is admitted in the ICU of a government-run hospital, after being remanded in judicial custody, had filed a bail application before the sessions court after surrendering on Saturday. He was booked by the Crime Branch in connection with death of his friend Nadia Torrado (28), who died allegedly after consuming poison.

The 46-year-old NCP legislator was booked on the charge of abetment to suicide and culpable homicide not amounting to murder.

The court dismissed his petition asking police to take him into custody when he is discharged from the hospital or when he is medically fit.

The Crime Branch had raised suspicion on the genuineness of Pacheco's sickness. Public Prosecutor Sarojini Sardinha yesterday said the medical certificates produced in the court were suspicious and demanded that Pacheco be examined by a panel of doctors.

The judge, however, refused to entertain the application asking for Pacheco's examination by a medical board stating that the public prosecutor should make such a request before a judicial magistrate.

The court said there is no clinical basis based on the investigation or certificate issued by doctor to arrive at a conclusion that ailment of the accused is serious.

"The medical certificate does not bear the date and there is vagueness in the report," the order reads.

The judge said that the event subsequent to the Apex Court order projected by the advocate for applicant does not amount to change in circumstances.

The court termed the bail application as 'an attempt to have a second innings and to camouflage and to circumvent the orders passed by the Apex Court'.

Last week, the Supreme Court had dismissed anticipatory bail petition by Pacheco.

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